NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 14 –
The battery of tests typically used to distinguish viral from bacterial pneumonia in adults do little to help confirm a diagnosis in children, according to a report in the May issue of Thorax. Previous studies investigating methods for differentiating viral and bacterial pneumonia in children, though often hampered by incomplete microbiological approaches, have found such tests as chest x-ray, white blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and C-reactive protein to be insufficiently reliable, the authors explain.
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